Innova - Operational System Engineer

ictjob.be; Brussel; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ictjob.be is seeking an operational/System Engineer for a one-year mission focused on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Storage, and service mesh integration. You will work with architects and system engineers to configure setups and support the operational team as 2nd line support.

The role emphasizes automation, scripting, and migration support to the Azure Cloud, with ongoing collaboration across multiple teams to ensure robust deployment and observability.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Azure AKS, Key Vault, Storage, Networking & Security, and observability.
• Proven experience with GitHub Actions and workflows for CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash).
• Middleware and integration experience and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist development teams with integration setup on Azure service mesh and messaging.
• Prepare configurations and coordinate with Firewall or other teams; track progress.
• Gradually hand over setup to operations and drive automation improvements.
• Enhance deployment processes and tooling for the operations team.
• Support migration of development teams to Azure Cloud and service mesh.

Skills

Azure AKS

Azure Storage

Azure Event Hub

Istio service mesh

PowerShell

Bash

GitHub Actions

GitHub workflows

Automation

2nd line support

IaC

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

We are seeking an operational/System Engineer with expertise in Azure Kubernetes (AKS), Azure Storage, Azure event hub, and istio service mesh for a one-year mission.

You will be integrated in a team of architect and System Engineer to configure integration setup and to support our operational team as 2nd line support.

Responsibilities

• helping development team to manage their request for integration setup on Azure service mesh and on Middleware standardized file transfer and event hub messaging solutions.
• asses team incoming requests and prepare configuration to be performed by our operational engineering team. launch request toward other teams like Firewall or other and follow up of these.
• gradually integrate our operational team to handover the setup to them.
• continue to improve and automate our deployment processes.
• improve scripting, automation process and tooling to provide good tool to our operational team.
• support different development teams in their migration to Azure Cloud, assisting with their integration into the service mesh. troubleshoot set that are not working as expected, identify issues, trigger needed changes, make follow up of progress.
• support Middleware operational team for standard Middleware setup on Azure, act as 2nd line support. debug issues, use our existing tools and monitoring/logging solutions to identify problems. report them to architect or engineering team. update our scripts to solve bugs or improve situation.
• work with the operational team to train them, explain the platform and assist them with debugging and troubleshooting.

Summary

• What we need is knowledge on Azure AKS, Azure keyvault, Azure Storage account, Azure Networking & Security, Azure observability - Azure AKS service mesh and istio tool is key .
• Good, deep and proven knowledge of GitHub, GitHub action, GitHub workflows
• On scripting good & proven knowledge on PowerShell, Bash, bicep - other TerraForm can help
• Middleware & integration knowledge (API management, ESB, pub/sub, ...) & experience in IaC (infrastructure as a code), configuration automation, CI/CD, monitoring, alarmin, scripting

About us:

join our dynamic team of skilled architects and engineers, contribute to increase their knowledge on Azure Cloud platform and service mesh, help to succeed a critical cloud migration project for the company.